Re: sorting russian text

[olet@ifi.uio.no (Ole J. Tetlie)]

*-Torsten Hilbrich <Torsten.Hilbrich@gmx.net>
|
| On: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:17:09 +0400 (AMT) Eugene Sevinian writes:
| > 
| > Hi, 
| > As I am working now on a multilingual text proccesing system I tried
| > to use 'sort' for this purpose. From "man bash" I have read that the
| > LANG variabale is responsible for local language setting.  Assuming
| > ru_RU is appropriate variable I set LANG=ru_RU; export LANG, but :((
| > nothing had changed at all. Should I do something else?  Help me,
| > please!
| 
| I have checked my sort command (version 1.22) for the value de_DE for
| LANG and it didn't work either.
| 
| I checked the documentation for both sort and the fileutils and
| couldn't find any mentioning of locale support.  So it seems to me
| that it is simply not supported.

I also wrote a small test using both strcoll and strcmp, and they
gave the same result in all cases (with no_NO). Perhaps libc is
at fault.

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